me from behind the bushes and hold a knife to your throat’ type rape, but ‘party rape’, ‘date rape’ – the kind of rape that happens too often without either party really realising it is rape. And if you don’t think that rape can happen without someone knowing it, think of Steubenville. Those boys said they didn’t realise they were raping their victim because she
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didn’t say no. She was passed out at the time, but still, no no, not rape. This is wrong for a tonne of reasons, and its occurrence is reinforced by rape culture. When you live in a nation where ‘I’ll give you something big enough to tear your ass in two’ and ‘Do it, like it hurt/ What you don’t like work?’
That’s not a blurred line; that’s harassment
are acceptable pop song lyrics then we have a significant problem. The song implies that, even though the girl has made it clear with her words that she is not interested, the fact that she has a hot body has confused the singer because, well, why the hell else would a girl have a hot body unless it was to make him want to tear her ass in two? It implies that this ‘bitch’s’ job is to be ‘liberated’ by his ‘smacking her ass’ and ‘pulling her hair’ (getting kind of confused at this point as I didn’t think that violence was liberating). This might be fine in the privacy of